Post art that best encapsulates modern society

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What language is that? Can't tell

Those faces

>I'm really unconformable with this but by being here I am virtue signalling how progressive I am so Ill do my best to sit here

The fuck?

Helvetica fetishist pls.

nobody wants to be there, but they know they'll get goodboy points and bragging rights afterwards.

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Things that make you uncomfortable are also art. Not all art before modern times were greco-roman statues jesus fuck I'm getting mad at a dead nazi documentary voiceover.
>here I am virtue signalling how progressive I am
They're not even... what?
Helvetica is overused... because it's really good get rekt nerd.

>Pic related, another great meme font.

If everything can be art, how can art be anything ?
You should call it reality.

Stop saying "modern art" please, and say "contemporary art" instead.

Modern art is great.

Picasso sucks, and Duchamp is vacuous.

>If everything can be art, how can art be anything ?

Art is specifically something created to impart a feeling. There's no point in over-complicating it.

*unsheathes Futura*
heh nuthin personnel

Well, I didn't post Picasso or Duchamp, I posted Salvador Dali.

Is waterboarding art ?

But you wrote modern art, not Salvador dali.

It can be. Ask Khalid.

Alex Colville

nice

Well Dali is modern art. Not all art of a period is great in my opinion.

I don't particularly like Picasso or Duchamp. But I like a lot of modern art.

You can be an expressionist or whatever other gay shit, but you'll only be acknowledged if it took some degree of skill. Also no edgy art like a meaningless pile of feces.

>Not all art of a period is great in my opinion.
I agree. That's what I wanted to point out in response to the assertion that "modern art is great".

Some modern art is good, some contemporary art is good, and some of either period is shit.

>virtue signalling

Yeah you're right. I guess I spoke too fast. Either way, I just wanted to point out that it's easy to just point to low-hanging fruits and say that all art of a period is bad, like many cultural conservatives do.

That said, I kind of agree with them to some extent that it wasn't a good idea to deconstruct skill from art.

This sort of shit

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2 nukes weren't enough

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Much better.

This makes me uncomfortable for some reason.

Autism

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You keep using that meme

I think you know where it came from

Nah, there's just something harrowing about a ghost town.

Doesn't look like a ghost town.

>whine about anime
>the only reason anyone knows about you is because lolanime
Serves him right.

I think it was a logical idea to have. I don't blame them for that, because seriously, what value is there in skill ?
The value, for the public at least, is entirely in the result. It doesn't matter how difficult it was to create an art piece, only how aesthetic it is in the end.
I disagree with people who prefer Fragonard to Rothko on account of their respective level of technical skill, because regardless of that the latter's painting are more pleasing to my eye.
A completely accidental mix of colors can be more valuable to me than something that took years of work.

On the other hand, I resent people who rejected the value of beauty or of aesthetic refinement, and who argued that Otto Dix's art is just as good as Gustav Klimt's.
That's bulldog.

There's something special about north american cities. You can see it there, but also in , and in real life. They're always kind of sinister, grotesque in a subtle way... I like it.

God, living in a place like this feels like living nowhere.

That's the artisan/artist dichotomy at work. "Art" as a practice of skill versus "Art" as defines it.

A good example of this is conceptart.org, where most of the artists are so amazing that they'd put a few old masters to shame, but only a handful of works make you feel anything.

it may not be visually appealing, but I can definitely appreciate what I think it's getting at

The picture is actually the inspiration for these photos. And there's also a movie that's based on these photos.

>God, living in a place like this feels like living nowhere.
It's rural Massachusetts so pretty much.

Well, I think it can be analogous to movies in a way. Sometimes a movie that has a simple plot can be fine to watch, but I still think there is aesthetic value in trying to make something increasingly deeper or have more detail; kind of like the difference between a Kubrick film and the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Both things are very popular and thought of as great by very different kinds of people, but it's pretty clear that the aesthetic vision of their respective directors is quite different, and their attention to detail is different as well.

I simply think skill *can* potentially help with beauty, such as for example Bernini's sculptures. It's pretty clear to me that his sculptures wouldn't sway me the same way if he wasn't such a master of his craft.

Mondriaan a shit
De Stijl a shit

Why should it matter that it is created? This idea that art requires an artist is so last century.

I agree, great art comes when skill and "message" form a cohesive whole. MCU is a great example. I love cape movies, but they're often held back by the politics/process of big budget studio movies and are only great when they manage to mitigate the negative effects of what they are.

Last good capeshit movie was Burton's second Batman.

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His sense of perspective is terrible.

this kind of stuff makes me prefer traditional Islamic societies to mine. This point has been reached.

I do not appreciate it, but there's no reason to get upset about it. It doesn't hurt anyone, unlike Islamic societies.

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I was a bit edgy there sorry.

Sounds like the Nordics are dumb for not being able to think outside 1 dimensional thinking

I think you are missing the point of art.

National Socialism is the way to go. In a good society, people like that would be executed.
The point of contemporary art is to lower morale and install nihilism in the masses. Beauty is the enemy of the left.

shut the fuck up libtard

Am i the only one who loves these?

I'm European, not american and there's just something so cozy about all these, like I wanna live and grow old in these sorts of places.

>hurr just because you can do something means you should
The problem with contemporary artists is that they are essentially uncreative people. They need a strong authority figure to tell them what to value, and, lacking that, they look to repudiate the values they perceive as coming before (beauty, logic, intellectual interest). This is adolescent, but contemporary artists are too mentally weak to figure out what they themselves value. That would require too much sincerity and courage.

kys
De Stijl is amazing in how they became a group of mathematicians, architects, painters, carpenters etc. all with the same aesthetic idea.

>Uses Google Image search to try to find the name of the defaced monument.
>Google returns "Best guess for this image: Veeky Forums"
That can't be right, Veeky Forums was always shit.

>Nearly empty 4 lane street in daylight...
>Car in middle of intersection...
>Driver, gone.
No idea why...

I swear I saw this corner in a movie about a crack addict boxer.

Oh, look, it's Peter Parker home.

youtube.com/watch?v=JxWSFfPcyTY

At first I thought the image was suggesting the bum in the middle had sold his pants to the thrift store to buy more liquor.

Was disappoint when I zoomed in and saw he still had his pants.

Looks like he's phasing out lol.

That's actually funny as fuck

Your inability to relate to modern art has more to do with you being autistic than them being uncreative.

>They need a strong authority figure to tell them what to value, and, lacking that, they look to repudiate the values they perceive as coming before (beauty, logic, intellectual interest).

The vast majority of great masters and premodern artists were either commissioned artisans or worked under religious authorities. Most of the sculptures in the post you're defending were either of rich people, or the gods they praised.

>The majority of uneducated people are autistic

Human Centipede in real life.

Human Centipede in real life.
Replace these with politicians.

how do people grow up to be like this?
How were they as childs?
Ive been to plenty of different countries in europe mostly, but those type of people can only be found in protestant countries.
They dress bad, and usually dont understand colour or form, but want to be defined as"artsy", it feels like "being part" of something is more important than practising said part...
man im confused...

and those said feelings should be positive human feelings as happiness, pride or whatever, its easy to create a piece of disgust. I think alot of people get away with creating shit pieces that ((((impart a feeeellliiing)))), that feeling being disgust or just repelling.
classical pieces create a feeling of amazement and respect for the artists work, the skill and detail required to create one.

inb4
>muh subjective fuulings

this

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what do you think its getting at? Because im completely lost.

Fractals desu

Looks like genital herpes

who is this semen demon?

All the good ones are >4mb

I feel for the guy but look at the scales, i mean they are kinda gay and all over the place, the main part of the dragon is not even shown, if it was a masterpeice then sure give it its own space, but that shitty tree someone carved into a "cool" half finished dragon? Of course that will go with the guy sucking dick sculptures

>Didn't even finish the sculpture
>has the audacity to complain when it's put in a gallery with everyone else's artwork from the class

I'd like to see the rest of the dragon. You can spend DAYS hand carving a fucking TREE into a goddamn bedside table, or a bust of John Belushi, or fucking anything. That doesn't mean it'll look or function well.

place de la republique paris

This shit happens every couple of years and every couple of years they clean it up.
It's been clean for a couple of months now, update your fake news

Your post doesn't refute anything.

Postmodernists have no historical understanding and reductively dismiss everything that came before Duchamp as "traditional". Every bad artist rallies against "cold, restictive" technique.

In my personal canon of art I'd probably put:
Sandro Botticelli
Leonardo da Vinci
Michelangelo
Raphael
Albrecht Dürer
El Greco
Diego Velázquez
Rembrandt
Eugene Delacroix
JMW Turner
Edouard Manet
Vincent Van Gogh
Pablo Picasso

All of these painters are the best and most essential in their respective fields. You cannot go wrong in studying them.

what fake news?
what are you talking about?
what you said was worst than any fake news you said that this happens every 2 years that's fucking pathetic
the penalty for desecrating monuments should be death